(1.) The two appeals, being A.P.O. No. 3 of 2017 and A.P.D. No. 6 of 2017, arise out of a judgment and order passed by a learned Single Judge on July 20, 2016, wherein an application, being G.A. No. 3675 of 2016, to amend a plaint in a civil suit, being C.S. No. 369 of 2014, was rejected and an application,being G.A. No. 1118 of 2015, for the dismissal of the said suit, was upheld under Order VII, Rule 11 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908.
(2.) The facts of the case, for the purposes of deciding the two appeals, are as follows:-
(3.) Before us two questions of law arise:-